100 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



On Tuesday morning, the 12th October, most of the loose 

 flowers were made up into wreaths by the Misses French, Haase, 

 and Kleiser, and Messrs. C. French and C. French, jun., the 

 flowers not required being forwarded to the Melbourne Hospital. 

 In the afternoon Messrs. C. French, F.L.S. (president), J. Shep- 

 herd, C. Frost, F.L.S., J. Gabriel, G. Coghill, and G. French, jun., 

 conveyed the wreaths and designs, twenty-seven in all, to the St. 

 Kilda Cemetery, and arranged them on Baron von Mueller's 

 grave, thereby completing the memorial proceedings organized by 

 the Club and enabling the contributors to show their respect and 

 love for the memory of the deceased botanist. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE EGG OF THE WHITE HEADED 

 FRUIT PIGEON, CARPOPHAGA NORFOLCIENSIS, 

 LATH. 



By D. Le Souep. 

 These birds frequent the dense scrubs that are found in the 

 coastal districts of North-East Australia. They are shy, and not 

 often seen, and seem to go about either singly or in pairs. The 

 egg of this bird is apparently the only one of the Australian Fruit 

 Pigeons' which has not yet been described. During my visit to 

 the Bloomfield River district in 1894, one of the black boys in 

 Mr. Hislop's service, named Bamboo, brought in an egg which 

 he said belonged to this bird; he found it on 23rd November. 

 Last year, when I was again visiting the same district, we found 

 another nest, on 28th November, with one egg in, slightly incu- 

 bated. The parent bird was disturbed off the nest. The nest 

 was the usual fragile structure, composed of a few sticks, and 

 being 3^ inches in diameter; it was built near the end of a 

 branch of a scrub tree and overhanging a watercourse, being about 

 fifteen feet from the ground. The eggs are an elongated oval, 

 one having a point on the smaller end. They are pure white 

 and slightly lustrous. The two taken measure — (1) 1.38 in. x 

 1.4 in. ; (2) 1.36 in. x 1.4 in. 



NOTES ON THE FANTAILED CUCKOO. 

 By A. J. Campbell. 

 (Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 9th August, 1897.,) 

 The smaller sized Fantailed Cuckoo, Cuculus flabelliformis, 

 Lath., like the Pallid Cuckoo, enjoys a range over Australia and 

 Tasmania, arriving at and departing from its southern limits about 

 the same time as the latter bird does. However, a few stragglers 

 of the Fantailed species remain to winter in Victoria, as some of 

 my notes attest. Also in Tasmania individuals have been ob- 

 served during winter. 



From about the end of September to the beginning of Decern- 



